Possible buyers for Genes Reunited

Major online family history companies are reported to be interested in buying ITV’s Friends Reunited and, more importantly, Genes Reunited.

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Have we all moved away from the old ancestral homes?

Here’s an article I found in yesterday’s Times reflecting on how few British people still live in the villages their ancestors lived in for hundreds of years.

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Cologne Archive collapses

The archives building in Cologne, Germany’s fourth-largest city, collapsed on Tuesday afternoon.

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Back to the Future: time-travelling letter

Here’s an article in the Daily Telegraph about a letter that took 90 years to arrive.

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We’re not Neanderthal men

The Economist reports on Svante Paabo’s recent announcement of a draft of the Neanderthal genome.

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Family history in Moray

Here’s an interesting article about Bruce Bishop and what he’s been doing for people with ancestors from Moray in the north of Scotland.

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More on Charles Darwin

I think we’re going to see very many articles about Charles Darwin this year, including this interesting extended book review.

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Charles Darwin and the peopling of the Pacific

Here’s an interesting article on Charles Darwin, whose 200th birthday (well, it would be) and the 150th anniversary of his book The Origin of Species are being celebrated this year.

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New Gwent family history centre by 2010

According to the South Wales Argus newspaper, the Gwent Record Office is to relocate to a new family history centre in an old steelworks in Ebbw Vale.

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Cornish local studies library and record office to merge

The Cornish Studies Library and the Cornwall Record Office are to merge as the Cornwall Archives and Local Studies Service.

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